Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc 13F annual report

Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc is an investment fund managing more than $79.4 billion ran by Sharon Wagoner. There are currently 107 companies in Mrs. Wagoner’s portfolio. The largest investments include NVIDIA Corp and Eli Lilly And Company, together worth $15.4 billion.

$79.4 billion Assets Under Management (AUM)

As of 15th July 2024, Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc’s top holding is 63,747 shares of NVIDIA Corp currently worth over $7.88 billion and making up 4.8% of the portfolio value. Relative to the number of outstanding shares of NVIDIA Corp, Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc owns more than approximately 0.1% of the company. In addition, the fund holds 8,273 shares of Eli Lilly And Company worth $7.49 billion. The third-largest holding is Costco Wholesale Corp worth $6.07 billion and the next is Apple Inc worth $5.71 billion, with 27,124 shares owned.

Currently, Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc's portfolio is worth at least $79.4 billion. The total portfolio value may be much higher due to cash assets that are not publicly disclosed such as fixed income, real estate, or cash equivalents.

Careers at Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc

The Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc office and employees reside in Stamford, Connecticut. According to the last 13-F report filed with the SEC, Sharon Wagoner serves as the Chairman & President at Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc.

Recent trades

In the most recent 13F filing, Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc revealed that it had opened a new position in Intuitive Surgical Inc and bought 4,182 shares worth $1.86 billion. This means they effectively own approximately 0.1% of the company. Intuitive Surgical Inc makes up 9.5% of the fund's Health Care sector allocation and has decreased its share price by approximately 0.1% in the past year.

The investment fund also strengthened its position in NVIDIA Corp by buying 51,441 additional shares. This makes their stake in NVIDIA Corp total 63,747 shares worth $7.88 billion. NVIDIA Corp dropped approximately 0.1% in the past year.

On the other hand, there are companies that Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc is getting rid of from its portfolio. Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc closed its position in Autodesk on 22nd July 2024. It sold the previously owned 6,234 shares for $1.52 billion. Sharon Wagoner also disclosed a decreased stake in Costco Wholesale Corp by approximately 0.1%. This leaves the value of the investment at $6.07 billion and 7,137 shares.

One of the smallest hedge funds

The two most similar investment funds to Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc are Trivant Custom Portfolio and Urban Advisory Corp. They manage $163 billion and $163 billion respectively.


Sharon Wagoner investment strategy

Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc’s portfolio is diversified across 12 sectors. Currently, their heaviest sector is Technology — making up 23.9% of the total portfolio value. The fund focuses on investments in the United States as 72.0% of the portfolio companies are based in the United States.

The majority of the companies in the fund’s portfolio are large-cap stocks. Stocks with a size of more than $10 billion in market cap make up 69% of the total holdings value. On the other hand, small-cap stocks make up only 2.8% of the portfolio. The average market cap of the portfolio companies is close to $192 billion.

The complete list of Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc trades based on 13F SEC filings

These positions were updated on July 22nd based on the fund’s latest 13F filing. Quickly find out what the most recently closed or increased positions are.

Security Shares Owned Value Allocation
NVIDIA Corp
418.02%
63,747
$7,875,282,000 4.84%
Eli Lilly And Company
20.93%
8,273
$7,490,469,000 4.60%
Costco Wholesale Corp
7.36%
7,137
$6,066,008,000 3.73%
Apple Inc
0.62%
27,124
$5,712,933,000 3.51%
Alphabet Inc
11.32%
25,402
$4,626,938,000 2.84%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
9.83%
22,239
$4,498,085,000 2.76%
Microsoft Corporation
8.28%
8,469
$3,785,234,000 2.33%
Amazon.com Inc.
9.60%
17,746
$3,429,414,000 2.11%
Trane Technologies plc
376.94%
9,949
$3,272,552,000 2.01%
Meta Platforms Inc
8.60%
6,198
$3,125,186,000 1.92%
Analog Devices Inc.
5.49%
13,198
$3,012,573,000 1.85%
Visa Inc
10.49%
11,221
$2,945,076,000 1.81%
Adobe Inc
1.99%
5,277
$2,931,820,000 1.80%
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
95.86%
15,651
$2,763,912,000 1.70%
Mckesson Corporation
140.16%
4,623
$2,700,029,000 1.66%
Blackrock Inc.
23.66%
3,426
$2,697,594,000 1.66%
S&P Global Inc
11.54%
5,606
$2,500,142,000 1.54%
Stryker Corp.
11.24%
7,171
$2,439,960,000 1.50%
Broadcom Inc.
37.72%
1,412
$2,267,008,000 1.39%
Charles Schwab (the) Corporati
13.40%
30,312
$2,233,699,000 1.37%
Applied Materials Inc.
12.11%
9,269
$2,187,280,000 1.34%
United Rentals, Inc.
18.19%
3,307
$2,138,763,000 1.31%
American Express Co.
22.55%
8,883
$2,056,859,000 1.26%
Quanta Services, Inc.
14.24%
8,021
$2,038,081,000 1.25%
Exxon Mobil Corp.
15.56%
17,267
$1,987,810,000 1.22%
Home Depot, Inc.
15.59%
5,680
$1,955,220,000 1.20%
Intuitive Surgical Inc
Opened
4,182
$1,860,363,000 1.14%
Oracle Corp.
Opened
12,769
$1,803,053,000 1.11%
Netflix Inc.
34.59%
2,655
$1,791,806,000 1.10%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
1.90%
3,064
$1,694,252,000 1.04%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Opened
1,551
$1,630,148,000 1.00%
Walmart Inc
139.17%
23,785
$1,610,509,000 0.99%
TJX Companies, Inc.
25.56%
14,340
$1,578,834,000 0.97%
Boston Scientific Corp.
Opened
20,174
$1,553,600,000 0.95%
Autodesk Inc.
Closed
6,234
$1,517,812,000
AMGEN Inc.
24.48%
4,747
$1,483,200,000 0.91%
Archer Daniels Midland Co.
Closed
20,315
$1,467,149,000
NextEra Energy Inc
30.61%
20,286
$1,436,462,000 0.88%
Marriott International, Inc.
24.25%
5,861
$1,417,014,000 0.87%
Wells Fargo & Co.
0.12%
23,407
$1,390,114,000 0.85%
Texas Instruments Inc.
21.01%
6,879
$1,338,172,000 0.82%
Emerson Elec Co
27.17%
12,111
$1,334,156,000 0.82%
Axon Enterprise Inc
Opened
4,492
$1,321,726,000 0.81%
Air Prods & Chems Inc
6.15%
5,110
$1,318,635,000 0.81%
Verizon Communications Inc
15.93%
31,792
$1,311,102,000 0.81%
Johnson & Johnson
5.29%
8,895
$1,300,117,000 0.80%
General Dynamics Corp.
27.64%
4,451
$1,291,413,000 0.79%
Procter & Gamble Co.
21.82%
7,773
$1,281,923,000 0.79%
Morgan Stanley
27.58%
13,180
$1,280,964,000 0.79%
International Paper Co.
26.99%
29,490
$1,272,493,000 0.78%
Northrop Grumman Corp.
Closed
2,713
$1,269,956,000
Pepsico Inc
12.65%
7,609
$1,254,991,000 0.77%
Caterpillar Inc.
43.26%
3,745
$1,247,459,000 0.77%
Union Pac Corp
54.17%
5,507
$1,246,014,000 0.77%
Chevron Corp.
5.32%
7,919
$1,238,636,000 0.76%
Salesforce Inc
28.65%
4,800
$1,234,025,000 0.76%
Automatic Data Processing Inc.
43.64%
4,995
$1,192,257,000 0.73%
Nucor Corp.
23.81%
7,521
$1,188,920,000 0.73%
PayPal Holdings Inc
Closed
19,150
$1,176,001,000
Corning, Inc.
28.16%
30,035
$1,166,860,000 0.72%
Zoetis Inc
31.86%
6,653
$1,153,364,000 0.71%
American Twr Corp-reit
23.93%
5,930
$1,152,673,000 0.71%
Microchip Tech Inc
26.55%
12,585
$1,151,557,000 0.71%
Illinois Tool Wks Inc
27.28%
4,782
$1,133,143,000 0.70%
Mcdonalds Corp
59.75%
4,368
$1,113,141,000 0.68%
Ishares Russell 1000 Grw Etf
1.61%
3,047
$1,110,662,000 0.68%
Us Bancorp
24.93%
27,708
$1,100,008,000 0.68%
Pfizer Inc.
9.41%
39,240
$1,097,935,000 0.67%
Abbott Labs
18.59%
10,001
$1,039,165,000 0.64%
Walt Disney Co (The)
29.23%
10,445
$1,037,084,000 0.64%
Cisco Systems, Inc.
25.97%
21,745
$1,033,105,000 0.63%
Mastercard Incorporated
19.57%
2,206
$973,220,000 0.60%
Bondbloxx Bloomberg Etf
Opened
19,219
$951,821,000 0.58%
Becton Dickinson & Co.
26.98%
4,060
$948,863,000 0.58%
Hologic, Inc.
Closed
11,935
$852,742,000
Unitedhealth Group Inc
6.62%
1,552
$790,494,000 0.49%
Intel Corp.
23.32%
24,010
$743,590,000 0.46%
KLA Corp.
Opened
884
$728,867,000 0.45%
Danaher Corp.
Closed
2,925
$676,688,000
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Closed
2,983
$670,823,000
Cintas Corporation
4.97%
956
$669,449,000 0.41%
Intuit Inc
6.07%
1,005
$660,252,000 0.41%
Conocophillips
Opened
5,418
$619,701,000 0.38%
Bondbloxx Etf Tr Bloomberg Six
Opened
12,239
$615,377,000 0.38%
Jacobs Solutions Inc
Opened
4,150
$579,796,000 0.36%
Vanguard Short-term Bd Etf
24.67%
7,443
$570,878,000 0.35%
Vanguard Interm-tm Corp Bd Idx
No change
6,701
$535,611,000 0.33%
American International Group Inc
Opened
7,135
$529,672,000 0.33%
HCA Healthcare Inc
5.79%
1,628
$523,044,000 0.32%
Nasdaq Inc
7.22%
8,377
$504,809,000 0.31%
Invesco Preferred Etf
3.07%
41,526
$479,625,000 0.29%
Ishares Floating Rate Bd Etf
0.12%
9,209
$470,488,000 0.29%
D.r. Horton Inc
Opened
3,239
$456,472,000 0.28%
Parker-Hannifin Corp.
Opened
897
$453,712,000 0.28%
Chipotle Mexican Grill
7,028.71%
7,200
$451,080,000 0.28%
Badger Meter Inc.
4.76%
2,401
$447,426,000 0.27%
Fastenal Co.
7.43%
7,101
$446,246,000 0.27%
Duke Energy Corp.
20.69%
4,338
$434,798,000 0.27%
Raymond James Financial, Inc.
5.62%
3,509
$433,747,000 0.27%
Roper Technologies Inc
5.79%
765
$431,200,000 0.26%
Novo Nordisk A/s
Opened
2,990
$426,793,000 0.26%
Waste Management, Inc.
Opened
1,898
$404,962,000 0.25%
Ishares Core S&p 500
23.41%
738
$403,856,000 0.25%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Closed
2,384
$391,691,000
Arista Networks Inc
0.19%
1,032
$361,695,000 0.22%
Merck & Co Inc
Opened
2,883
$356,915,000 0.22%
Ishares Russell 2000 Index Etf
9.95%
1,720
$348,971,000 0.21%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactu
0.75%
1,981
$344,318,000 0.21%
Schwab Us Dividend Equity Etf
1.34%
4,413
$343,155,000 0.21%
Ishares 0-5 Yr Tips Bond Etf
Closed
3,391
$334,319,000
Ishares Msci Eafe Etf
3.87%
3,507
$274,703,000 0.17%
Ameriprise Financial Inc
0.56%
533
$227,692,000 0.14%
Blackstone Inc
Opened
1,779
$220,256,000 0.14%
Norfolk Southern Corp.
No change
1,000
$214,690,000 0.13%
Southern Company
Opened
2,747
$213,098,000 0.13%
Lockheed Martin Corp.
68.27%
429
$200,605,000 0.12%
No transactions found
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